From the Cutting Room Floor
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This is an image I made in photoshop that I was going to put inside the back cover of my book and then decided not to.
published Jul 8, 2008 6:05pm by Tommy Angelo, Tommy Angelo
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Have you watched esoteric agenda?
the tilt cloud lmfao nice :)
Outstanding! I think I might print this out and stick it in the back of your book.
wheres pluto?
wheres pluto?
Pluto got demoted right before I drew it.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060824-pluto-planet.html
Coming from an amatuer astronomer, great stuff!
The image on the cover of the book is VERY slick.... what is it of? Its like some sort of zaha hadid madness!
The image on the cover of the book is VERY slick.... what is it of? Its like some sort of zaha hadid madness!
Glad you liked it!
I found the image at gettyimages.com after a year of looking at images all over the place and bouncing ideas off several friends of mine who are artists. At the outset, the only things I had decided on about the cover was that it would not include pictures of cards or chips, and that it would be something I would enjoy looking at if I saw it in a museum or on a wall in my home. (My reasoning there was that since I would be doing some sales from home, I'd be looking at it a lot over the years, so I'd best like what it looks like.)
To me, the cover of "Elements of Poker" is an abstract representation of what is inside the book. The bottom third or so is many pieces that sort of go together and reflect off one another, like the elements in the book, and the bottom third of the image also represents the slicing pain and edginess of poker. The various reds are like blood -- flowing blood, and clotted blood. The middle, with the smooth loopy-shaped thingies, is like a tilt-prone poker player in mid-development, learning to smooth out the edges and find some tranquility. The top represents the arrival at emptiness, and peace, that can only exist in the moment, and is never forever, because there’s that thick stripe of bloody tilt looming off to the side.
Tommy
I like it
I'm not too interested (or better say I don't underestand) paintings and abstract, and their interpretation, but I liked the image on the book, and after your interpretation of it, I now like it a lot.
What's event odds? I guess a tournament term?
What's event odds? I guess a tournament term?
Yes. Here's the "Event Odds" section from "Elements of Poker."
101. Event Odds
Event odds is a betting decision variable that only exists in tournaments. The defining feature of event odds is that it always takes the payout into account. (If a deal might be struck, then there is an implied payout, and that too is weighed into every decision under the heading event odds.)
Event odds is similar in spirit to implied odds, but longer in scope. Implied odds start over once per hand. Event odds start over once per event.
Before calling with a flush draw, one might think, “I am going to call because I am getting the right implied odds to call.” Similarly, at the final table of a big tournament, when every elimination makes you money, and you have a very big stack, and you are in the big blind, and the player under-the-gun goes all-in with a short stack, and everyone folds around to you, and your hand is not very good, you might think to yourself, “I would fold this hand in a cash game because the pot odds do not warrant a call, and there are no implied odds because my opponent is all-in. But here, in this current situation in this tournament, I am getting the right event odds to call, so I call.”
In the same way that all good no-limit decisions pass through the stack size variable (E123), all good tournament decisions pass through the event odds variable.
I meant to mention this earlier but it slipped my mind...
The Oort Cloud is regarded as hypothetical by many astronomers. That could have some interesting implications when it's used as a metaphor for tilt.
To me, the cover of "Elements of Poker" is an abstract representation of what is inside the book. The bottom third or so is many pieces that sort of go together and reflect off one another, like the elements in the book, and the bottom third of the image also represents the slicing pain and edginess of poker. The various reds are like blood -- flowing blood, and clotted blood. The middle, with the smooth loopy-shaped thingies, is like a tilt-prone poker player in mid-development, learning to smooth out the edges and find some tranquility. The top represents the arrival at emptiness, and peace, that can only exist in the moment, and is never forever, because there’s that thick stripe of bloody tilt looming off to the side.
Wow, I really like this. I kinda got lost in the cover for a couple minutes looking at it when thinking about your interpretation.
I finally got around to it and printed this out and taped it on the inside back cover of the book.
I decided I also really liked Tommy's explanation of the cover so I printed that out and taped it to the inside of the front cover.

